It hurts my brain just trying.
Sure, this works, because we all know what a bastion of civic virtue Detroit is...
Tell me this came from Onion! This has got to be a liberal’s New Year’s joke!! Right???
“Unarmed but trained people, often formerly violent offenders themselves, patrolling their neighborhoods to curb violence right where it starts—”
I will not read one more word,not one.
What has this person been smoking?
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Unarmed but trained people, often formerly violent offenders themselves...
In reality, the only place you find such people is in Christian churches.
Gawd, this article has GOT to be satire.
No thanks. Things would improve if they just fired the bad cops.
Wilson wasn't a bad cop.
Figure out how to have a Union-free world, now that would be an improvement.
With just a modicum of good will and a bit'o'training at ye olde community college, Michael Brown would have made an outstanding village peace officer.
Will you not join our candle-light vigil tonight, as we sing Koom-By-Yah? ¡Sí, se puede!
It is a crime we allow liberals to walk among us. This is some very insane stuff.
Time to bring back Vigilante Justice. There would simply be no laws other than an unwritten code and of course the Golden Rule. Vigilante Justice was born out of dissatisfaction with a corrupt Justice System. Vigilante Justice recognizes only right and wrong. There is no such thing as a grey area. One is either guilty or not. And as for punishment, if found guilty there is either banishment or hanging, and it is swift.
It scares me when something like this comes out, because they always put out their crappy plans before they implement them.
Ma'ma we are the mediation and intervention team. If you will just give the nice teen your rings he agrees not to beat you to death, just slap you around a little.
What are you doing with that gun?
You can't shoot him!
:Stands in front of "teen":
Bang! Bang! Bang! Bang!
Lady- "Oh bother, now I have to go shoe shopping again."
He is correct and should immediately check into the nearest one.
I didn’t see anything in there about citizens bearing arms and defending themselves.
Actually, the authors don't have to imagine any such society - they can read about them in history. London, for example, before 1829, had no professional police force. It did have a sort of neighborhood watch system such as the article calls for.
And how did that work out with respect to crime? I'll leave the answer to the curious researcher, but I bet you can guess.
This reminds me of the movie with Sylvester Stallone and Sandra Bullock in a futuristic world (I think it was Demolition Man). The movie showed the idiocy of such a world when one evil man appears and they can’t deal with him within the new “rules” that society had accepted. The more liberals open their mouth the more they show they are absolutely divorced from reality.
“Unarmed but trained people, often formerly violent offenders themselves, patrolling their neighborhoods”
Like Gitmo prisoners?
The mental health issue is a major point. If you just let them out on the street, they will probably end up writing for Rolling Stone and cause more mental health issues.
The writer of this piece needs to put the bong down.
The only way to create a cop free society is to create a society that doesn’t need cops. That’s not going to happen in the urban environment.